Travel

go sightseeing

visit interesting places

When you go sightseeing, you visit and look at interesting or famous places in a city or area.

B1 very common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

What are you doing tomorrow?

We are going sightseeing in the old town.

Play the conversation

We went sightseeing as soon as we arrived in Rome.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: We did sightseeing around the city.

Say: We went sightseeing around the city.

Use “go sightseeing” or “do some sightseeing,” not usually “do sightseeing” by itself.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

go sightseeing; spend the day sightseeing

Your turn: say it out loud

We went sightseeing as soon as we arrived in Rome.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

go sightseeing

visit interesting places

“We went sightseeing as soon as we arrived in Rome.”

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